White House Ghost Stories
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
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1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
When was Blair House built?Blair House was built in 1824 for Dr. Joseph Lovell, a United States Army Surgeon General,...
Thanksgiving at the White House is a quiet holiday for the presidents family, featuring a meal that traditionally included turkey,...
Halloween has been celebrated at the White House in various ways since the mid-20th century. Here is how different...
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century....
Our Journal White House History Quarterly, the award-winning journal of the White House Historical Association, is published twice each year....
7:00 - 8:30 pm "A Monumental Celebration" At the Lincoln Memorial Master of Ceremonies: Markette Sheppard, Host of WUSA 9's Great Day...